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to bed, a sure prelude to restless, troubled sleep, 

 with a sense of injury stabbing the heart and rank- 

 ling in the mind. It is a preparation inviting all 

 evil influences and repelling the good. Life's 

 cares and the world's travail should be dropped 

 with our garments and we should trust ourselves 

 with happy confidence to the blessed ministrations 

 of the divine mystery of sleep, when the soul is 

 offered release from its physical trammels. 



The thoughts which occupy the mind at the mo- 

 ment when Sleep gently slips the cap of oblivion 

 over our brains are of paramount influence not 

 merely upon the rest which should ensue but also 

 upon the general health, because they determine 

 in no slight degree the character of the Tattvic flow 

 and the equable balance of the two currents of 

 Prana. Apas and Prithivi, the water and earth 

 elements, are favorable vibrations whose flow we 

 encourage by cheerfulness, serene poise, pleasure, 

 satisfaction and all pure forms of genuine happi- 

 ness. We can thus by governing our unruly 

 thoughts correct inherited surplusage of unfavor- 

 ble vibrations and furnish the conditions that at- 

 tract to us more fortunate ones. 



Remember always that it is the mind which dic- 

 tates every action that disturbs the Tattvic balance 

 of the vital current, and that the endowment of 

 free will makes every human being responsible for 

 the thoughts that supply the impulse. The Tan- 



